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Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.
One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.
In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Before you have a baby, friends tell you 'sleep now,' and you laugh because you don't think that all those stories could be true. But they are.
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.
We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.
In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted.
The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.
I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would.
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it
The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.
The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.
I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."
It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.
I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.
Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
If we can make more diverse colors, people, stories, it will be interesting. Uniforms are for the military and the police, not for our thinking.
Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.